The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... Objects , natural and arti- ficial , which should be presented to their view - mode of conveying a knowledge of the qualities of objects - communication of ideas by engravings . Experiments on this sub- ject , with a boy about two years ...
... Objects , natural and arti- ficial , which should be presented to their view - mode of conveying a knowledge of the qualities of objects - communication of ideas by engravings . Experiments on this sub- ject , with a boy about two years ...
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... objects around them , must be communi- cated at an early age ; and not merely the names , but the ideas , of the most interesting objects in the physical and intellectual world , must be conveyed by a succession of well- defined mental ...
... objects around them , must be communi- cated at an early age ; and not merely the names , but the ideas , of the most interesting objects in the physical and intellectual world , must be conveyed by a succession of well- defined mental ...
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... objects which it is calculated to accomplish . - To illustrate this position is the object of the following remarks ... objects of nature or of art . And , therefore , if sensible objects , level to his capacity and range of thought ...
... objects which it is calculated to accomplish . - To illustrate this position is the object of the following remarks ... objects of nature or of art . And , therefore , if sensible objects , level to his capacity and range of thought ...
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... objects of sense , and from the pur- suits of science and the business of human life , to which it has a reference . As all our notions on any branch of human knowledge are originally derived from sensible objects , so our ideas of ...
... objects of sense , and from the pur- suits of science and the business of human life , to which it has a reference . As all our notions on any branch of human knowledge are originally derived from sensible objects , so our ideas of ...
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... objects to which these faculties may be directed are boundless and infinitely diversified ; he is moving onward to an eternal world , and , in the present state , can never expect to grasp the universal system of created objects , or to ...
... objects to which these faculties may be directed are boundless and infinitely diversified ; he is moving onward to an eternal world , and , in the present state , can never expect to grasp the universal system of created objects , or to ...
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